The Crater Lake Monster

The heat of a meteor crashing into the lake incubates a prehistoric egg, which grows into a plesiosaur-like monster that terrifies the community.

Genre : HorrorScience Fiction

Runtime : 85 mins

Release Date : 1977-03-01

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RELEASED IN 1977 and written & directed by William R. Stromberg, “The Crater Lake Monster” details events in the high country of central California after a meteor strikes the eponymous (fictitious) lake and incubates a prehistoric egg, which hatches a plesiosaur-like creature that terrorizes the lo...

Now then - where to start. It would be easy to just rip it to shreds. It's rubbish - on just about every level. For reasons that are not immediately clear, it was digitally remastered (if, indeed, it was ever "mastered" in the first place) in 2011 which, if anything, seems to have merely exacerbate...

Cast

Richard Cardella

(Sheriff Steve Hanson)

Glen Roberts

(Arnie Chabot)

Mark Siegel

(Mitch Kowalski)

Bob Hyman

(Richard 'Doc' Calkins)

Richard Garrison

(Dan Turner)

Kacey Cobb

(Susan Patterson)

Michael F. Hoover

(Ross Conway)

Suzanne Lewis

(Paula Conway)

Marc Eliot

(Jack Fuller)

Garry Johnston

(Blackmailer)

Sonny Shepard

(Robber)

John Crowder

(Mechanic)

Susy Claycomb

(Waitress)

Hal Scharn

(Birdwatcher)

Mike Simmons

(Store Clerk)

Mary Winford

(Lady Customer)

Jim Goeppinger

(Villager)

Joe Sasway

(Ferguson)